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Yes, it is an issue. And worse, the web has become something so important that you can't just outright deny all access to it. Yet it is still akin to dropping y
by esaym 11y ago
Yes, it is an issue. And worse, the web has become something so important that you can't just outright deny all access to it. Yet it is still akin to dropping your child off on the wrong side of town unattended and simply "hoping for the best".
The old saying used to just be "have the family computer in a public room (living room,ect) and don't allow private access". But with every phone, tv, game console, alarm clock, whatever, all having their own web browsers, the only way to truly filter is from the single source of the ISP connection.
7 years ago I had an idea to make web filtering routers and ethernet bridges. But even then it was becoming too hard to reliably do. And I didn't want to market something for family protection that I couldn't 100% reliably guarantee works.
And most recently, a somewhat home constrained neighbor that lived by me wanted me to secure his internet "the way mine is". He was tired of fighting porn addictions. I set him up the best I could, but within a year I had gotten word that he had convinced another friend/relative to buy him a smart phone with unlimited internet access...